AP ending "asap"

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is closing down a 2-year-old premium multimedia service that emphasized nontraditional methods of storytelling, saying that it had failed to gain enough traction with newspaper clients.
The service, called "asap," will be discontinued as a standalone service on Oct. 31, Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the news cooperative, told AP staff in an internal memo Friday.
Neither of the papers I was at during that time span subscribed; the stories looked interesting, but they were also rather feature-y, and I'm not sure there was ever much space for them in most papers.